The New Hampshire Gazette

Upon the Encouragement given by a Number of Subscribers agreeable to printed Proposals, I now publish the first Weekly Gazette, for the Province of New-Hampshire; depending upon the Favour of all Gentlemen who are Friends to Learning, Religion and Liberty to countenance my Undertaking, as this is the beginning of Printing in this Province, so that I may go On cheerfully, and continue this Paper in a useful and entertaining Manner.

Fondness of News may be carried to an extreme; but every Lover of Mankind must feel a strong Desire to know what passes in the World, as well as within his own private Sphere; and particularly to be acquainted with the Affairs of his own Nation and Country Especially at such a Time as this, when the British Nation is engaged in a just and necessary War with a powerful Enemy, the French, a War in which these American Colonies are most nearly interested, the Event of which must be of the utmost Importance both to us and all the British Dominions, every true Englishman must be anxious to know from Time to Time the State of our Affairs at Home and in the Colonies.

I Shall therefore take Pains to furnish my Readers with the most material News which can be collected from every Part of the World, particularly from Great-Britain, and its Dependencies: And great Care will be taken that no Facts of Importance shall be published but such as are well attested, and these shall be as particular as may be necessary.

But besides the common News, whenever there shall be Room, and as there may be Occasion, this Paper will contain Extracts from the best Authors on Points of the most useful Knowledge, moral, religious or political Essays, and other such Speculations as may have a Tendency to improve the Mind, afford any Help to Trade, Manufactures, Husbandry, and other useful Arts, and promote the public Welfare in any Respect.

As the Press always claims Liberty in free Countries, it is presumed that none will be offended if this Paper discovers that Spirit of Freedom which so remarkably prevails in the English Nation: But as Liberty ought not to be abused, no Encouragement will be given by the Publisher to any Thing which is apparently designed to foment Divisions in Church or State, nor to any Thing profane, obscene, or tending to encourage Immorality, nor to such Writings as are produced by private Pique, and filled with personal Reflections and insolent scurrilous Language. It is a great Abuse of good Sense as well as good Manners to employ those Means which may be serviceable to the best Purposes, in the service of Vice or any thing Indecent, or which may give just Occasion of Offence to any persons of true Taste and Judgment. - And therefore proper Caution will be always used to avoid all reasonable Grounds of Complaint on that Score.

The Publisher will esteem it a great Favour to be well supplied by Correspondents of Genius and generous Sentiments with such Speculations or Essays as may be pleasing and instructive to the Public, agreeable to the Design of this Paper, and acknowledge himself obliged to any Gentleman who will take the Pains to communicate to him any good Intelligence, provided they be sent free from Charge.